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News: Facing dominance: why we may pr...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=9807
Products like cars and watches are often marketed as sleek, classy and reliable. But according to new U of T research, there may be an unconscious appetite among consumers for them to convey dominance.
ldquoIf these products are used in situations where yoursquore competing with someone else, the goal may be dominance,rdquo says Pankaj Aggarwal, a marketing professor in U of T Scarboroughrsquos Department of Management and the Rotman School of Management.
For a variety of reasons people are a...Don CampbellNewsThu, 31 Aug 2017 15:01:56 EDTNews: Faculty member and former lieut...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=9748
The Hon. David Onley, one of U of T Scarboroughrsquos most distinguished alumni and a lecturer at the campus, has been officially invested as a member of the Order of Canada.
Onley, who served for seven years as Ontariorsquos Lieutenant Governor, has been a passionate advocate for disability rights.
ldquoThroughout his career, he has advanced the publicrsquos understanding of people with disabilities, particularly during his tenure as Ontariorsquos lieutenant governor, where he made inclusion...Chris GarbuttNewsMon, 28 Aug 2017 13:01:36 EDTNews: U of T Scarboroughs Dr. Tayyab ...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=9747
Dr. Tayyab Rashidrsquos approach to clinical psychology is to first focus on the positive. For him, dwelling only on doom and gloom, dysfunction and weakness, is just not enough.
ldquoI prefer to take a strengths-based approach,rdquo says Rashid, a licensed clinical psychologist at the Health Wellness Centre, and an associate faculty member in the graduate department of psychological clinical science program at U of T Scarborough.
ldquoMy role as a clinician is to be empathetic, but also bri...Don CampbellNewsMon, 28 Aug 2017 10:11:51 EDTNews: Students Get Creative at ARTSID...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=2314
Call it a creative success.
The 3rd annual ARTSIDEOUT on October 7 was a hit this year as students, staff and faculty enthusiastically experienced concerts, installations and art work spread across disciplines around the UTSC campus.
Organizer Leo Lam says the event offers participants unique opportunities for wider exposure, involvement and networking outside of the campusrsquo traditional art venues.
ldquoYou get to see performances, interact with student...By Karen HoNewsMon, 18 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EDTNews: Renowned writer Michael Helm is...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=1011
by Mary Ann Gratton
Acclaimed Canadian writer Michael Helm is at U of T Scarborough this winter as a Writer in Residence and the 2008 Snider Visiting Artist.
The novelist and essayist was a finalist for the Giller Prize for his novel, The Projectionist, in 1997.Helmrsquos novel, In the Place of Last Things, was a finalist for the Rogers Writersrsquo Trust Fiction Prize in 2004 and for a regional Commonwealth Writersrsquo Prize for Best Book. Helm is teaching a course on campus this term and...Unknown AuthorNewsSat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 ESTNews: Insight into Alzheimers...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=3118
Researchers at the University of Toronto Scarborough UTSC and Osaka University applied a new approach to take a close look at amyloid plaque formation, a process that plays important roles in Alzheimerrsquos disease. The technique would greatly aid the development and screening for novel therapeutics that can manipulate the formation of the toxic amyloid aggregates.
Anthony Veloso, Prof. Kagan Kermanrsquos PhD student in Chemistry, used a laser to trap amyloid-beta peptides and examined them ...Kurt KleinerNewsWed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDTResearch: Crowdsourcing science: PhD ...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=2686
Devin Bloom is not your typical Facebook user. The Ph.D. candidate in evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto Scarborough UTSC only posts sporadically to the site, and he wouldnrsquot even have a personal Facebook page if his little sister hadnrsquot secretly set one up for him. But recently, while on a scientific expedition to the remote jungles of Guyana, Bloom helped illuminate a powerful new use for the social networking tool. As a result, technology-averse biologists around the...A. WestollResearchTue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDTResearch: Professor and PhD student n...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=2629
Congratulations to UTSC computer science professor Nick Koudas and doctoral student Nilesh Bansal, who were recently named University of Toronto Inventors of the Year for 2011. The pair received the inaugural award along with eight other U of T faculty from areas as diverse as chemistry, engineering and medicine.
Koudas and Bansal were honoured for their innovations in social media analytics, specifically tools they built that use data mining and content aggregation technology to perform adv...A. WestollResearchMon, 21 Mar 2011 08:00:00 ESTExternal Link: U of T honours 356 emp...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4974
U of T honours 356 employees reaching long service anniversaries...Unknown AuthorExternal LinkTue, 11 Jun 2013 09:31:41 EDTNews: Gough elected UTSC Campus Counc...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4949
Effective July 1, 2013, a UTM Campus Council and a UTSC Campus Council will replace the existing UTM Erindale College Council and the UTSC Faculty Council.The new Campus Councils were established by and will report to U of Trsquos Governing Council, and are comparable to its Boards. On behalf of Governing Council, the Campus Councils will exercise governance oversight of campus-specific matters.
Professor William Gough will serve as inaugural chair of the University of Toronto Scarborough Cam...Shelley RomoffNewsMon, 03 Jun 2013 13:26:32 EDTNews: UTSC gets smart about commuting...http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=4951
UTSC staff members and students now have a ldquosmartrdquo alternative to use while commuting to and from campus.
The City of Torontorsquos Smart Commute Scarborough initiative was recently launched at the Eastern GTA Eco Summit at UTSC. The University of Toronto is one of the inaugural participants.
The program encourages alternatives to driving onersquos own car. That includes commuting via public transit, active transit such as walking and biking and carpooling or ridesharing.
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